The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

An American legend is back

2008102 min5.3 / 10

A period romance centered on a headstrong Southern woman and a working-class man navigating class barriers and social disapproval in Depression-era Memphis.

Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.

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